About the Contributors

308

Milica Boskovic worked at University of Belgrade-Faculty of Security Stud- ies from 2005 to 2018. From 2005 until 2007, she worked as instructor trainee for the courses Environment Protection, and Environmental Crime. Since 2007, she worked as instructor for the courses Environment Protection, and Ecological Safety. Since January 2009, she has worked as assistant professor for the course Industrial Security and Protection; and also as assistant professor at specialist undergraduate studies for the course Crisis Management in Industry and Power Supply Systems. Since 2018 she works as associate professor at College of Social Work, teaching Social disorders and Society and conflict. She wrote over 20 scientific articles, 3 monographs and books and was hired as editor for international handbooks.

* * *

Arif Akgul is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, and affiliated faculty in the International Studies program, at Indiana State University. His teaching and research interests include criminal justice institutions, public policy, and security studies. He has extensive field research experience in the Syrian refugee crisis and its impact to host countries.

Benjamin Enahoro Assay teaches mass communication at Delta State Poly- technic, Ogwashi-Uku, Nigeria. He holds BA and MA degrees in mass communication from Delta State University, Abraka, and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, respectively. Assay is on the verge of being awarded a doctorate degree in mass communication by the Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria. He has published articles in scholarly journals, and contributed chapters in several books, locally and internationally. His research interests cover areas such as information and communication technology and national development; international communication and comparative media studies, media, democracy and good governance, population and health communication, and public relations and advertising. He is a member of several professional bodies, including African Council for Communication Education About the Contributors

(ACCE) Nigeria Chapter, Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), Association of Communication Scholars and Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN), Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), National Association for Research Development (NARD), among others.

Erifyli Bakirli is a doctor in criminology at Panteion University, Athens. She is substitute professor in Hellenic Police Officer’s Academy. She wrote a book entitled “Contemporary Governance and Crime Control” (2018), and her articles have been edited to Greek scientific journals.

Gabriela Mesquita Borges has graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Uni- versity of Porto in 2012, in Criminology. In 2013, Gabriela attended the Master in Woman and Child Abuse at London Metropolitan University, UK. This course provided Gabriela with a comprehensive grounding in theoretical frameworks, research, policy, and practice approaches to the woman and child abuse, namely regarding all types of violence towards women, sexual violence, and sexual exploitation of children. Currently, Gabriela is taking a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Law of University of Porto, whose theme is “Violence Towards Refugee Women - Human Rights, Practices and Narratives.”

Okafor Joachim Chukwuma is a 2006 graduate of Political Science from Ebonyi State University. He did his Master’s Degree at the prestigious University of Ibadan in 2011 and now is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His areas of specialization include; International Relations, Peace and Security Studies, African Politics, Environmental Politics (Climate Change), International Political Economy and Armed Conflict. He has published in reputable peer-reviewed journals.

Obediah Dodo holds a doctorate degree in Governance and Leadership. He lectures at Bindura University, Zimbabwe. He has published over 60 refereed journals, 17 full books, and five book chapters in the areas of Conflict resolution and prevention, Youth violence, and Election management.

Rita Faria is an Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology - Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, and member of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Crime, Justice, and Security. She has been researching on research misconduct, occupational, and organizational crime, as well as in History and Epistemology of Criminology. She has used qualitative methods extensively and is co-chair of the European Society of Criminology’s Working-Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies.

309 About the Contributors

Ana Grbic is an Assistant Professor. She works at College of Social work in Belgrade. She holds a PhD in Law from Faculty of Law, Megatrend University. She has published numerous significant articles in international journals, and presented several conference papers in Serbia and abroad.

Cuneyt Gurer is the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation fellow at the Uni- versity of Siegen and is conducting research on “Conflict, Refugees and Dynamics of Integration.” His research interests and areas of expertise are conflict and human displacement, integration policies, transnational and regional security issues and comparative security policies. He has been affiliated also with the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies as an Adjunct Professor. He also worked with nongovernmental aid agencies providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees in Turkey, and provided consultancy to increase the efficiency of NGO activities.

Janine Janssen is Professor of Violence in Dependency Relationships at Avans University of Applied Sciences and head of research of the Dutch Centre of Expertise on Honour-based Violence of the dutch National Police.

Aliraza Javaid has a BSc (Hons) Criminology, an MSc Clinical Criminology, an MRes Social Sciences, and has completed his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy. His research interests are gender, sexualities, masculinities, police and policing, sexual violence, the sociology of ‘evil’, and the sociology of love. His first sole-authored book, which is entitled Male Rape, Masculinities, and Sexualities: Understanding, Policing, and Overcoming Male Sexual Victimisation, has been published by Pal- grave (2018). His second sole-authored book, entitled Masculinities, Sexualities, and Love, is published by Routledge (2018). His other publications around his research interests can be found at https://alirazajavaid.wordpress.com/publications-2/.

Zilijeta Krivokapic is an Assistant Professor. She holds a PhD in Psychology. She works at University of Bjeljina and at College of Applied Health Science Cuprija. She is specialist in Clinical Psychology and Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy. Zilijeta is a member of the Presidentship of the Association of Psychotherapists of Serbia.

Ljiljana Manić is Associate Professor at College of Social Work, Belgrade, Ser- bia. She holds a PhD in Communication studies from Faculty of culture and media, Megatrend University, Belgrade. Her scientific fields of interest are interdisciplinary, including communication, public opinion, and position of elderly population. She participated in numerous scientific conferences in country and abroad. She authored the books “The Public, the Elderly and the Media” and “Nonprofit organizations and

310 About the Contributors public”, and many papers published in domestic and international journals in the field of marginalization. Ljiljana Manić is involved in two research projects of Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. Currently, professor Manić is a Secretary in the Gerontological Society of Serbia.

Tatjana Milivojević is Associate Professor at College of Social Work, Belgrade, Serbia. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Faculty of Philosophy, Nice Sophia- Antipolis University, France. Her scientific fields of interest are interdisciplinary, including sociocultural anthropology, applied philosophy, ethics, psychology, and communication. She published monographs, chapters in international and national monographs, articles in national and international journals, and presented conference papers in Serbia and abroad. She has recently published several papers on ageing and the elderly. Tatjana Milivojevic is also a certified TA psychotherapist, and a member of the Association of Transactional Analysts of Serbia and Serbian Union of Associations of Psychotherapists (SUAP).

Adnan Mouhiddin is a PhD researcher at the University of Surrey in the UK, undertaking a funded research on community solutions to youth offending in Syria. Prior to his doctoral research, he worked as a consultant for various NGOs. Cur- rently, he serves as a Board Member of ‘Syria Legal Network’. Adnan is a qualified restorative justice associate practitioner with the Restorative Justice Council in the UK and a member of the British Society of Criminology.

Freedom Onuoha received his doctorate degree in Political Economy from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His research interests centre on organized crime, maritime security, critical infrastructure protection, terrorism, and political violence. Previously, he was the Head of the Department of Conflict, Peacekeep- ing and Humanitarian Studies, Centre for Strategic Research and Studies, National Defence College, Nigeria. Dr. Onuoha has published widely on the above subjects, including one book, 12 chapters in edited books, over 40 journal articles, seven commissioned reports, and four occasional papers.

Nicoletta Policek is Associate Professor in Policing and Criminology at the university of Cumbria, UK. As a critical criminologist, she has combined a career as a teacher, holding several tenure positions in Higher Education, with her passion for social justice and human rights, directing national and international NGOs. As an expert ethnographer, Nicoletta Policek has worked on several research projects ranging from oral histories of gipsy women in a prison setting, the sentencing of women offenders, and the evaluation of alternatives to imprisonment, the policing

311 About the Contributors of the outdoor sex industry, and more recently the criminalisation of migration with particular focus on statelessness.

Sasa Stepanovic since 2018 has been a professor at the College of Social Work in Belgrade. From 2015 to 2018, he taught at elementary school “Mladost”, Novi Beograd. From 2011 to 2015, he was an expert associate at the Methodology of Nature and Society, Teacher’s Faculty of the University of Belgrade, with Prof. Dr. Nada Vilotijevic, and in the exercises in schools, evaluated and analyzed exams with students. From 2012 to 2015, he worked as a class teacher in primary school “14. October “, Labudovo brdo, and from 2010 to 2014 worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Belgrade in two study subjects: Educational Technology and Pedagogical Informatics, where he worked directly with students, delivered lectures, and practical exercises envisaged by the curriculum. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a teacher of elementary education at elementary school “Duško Radović”, Novi Beograd. In 2016, Stepanovic received his PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Department: Pedagogy (topic: “Organization of teaching and education of pupils with sensory impairments”). In 2011, he defended another Master’s work at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Uni- versity of Belgrade (theme: “Institutional education of students with disabilities”). In 2010, he defended his first master work at the Faculty of Teacher Education at the University of Belgrade (topic: “Specificity of education of children with special needs problems and new concepts in the education system as a solution”). In 2010, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, Department of Pedagogy, and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy (topic: “Aspects of family and institutional education for people with disabilities”). In 2009, he graduated from the Teacher Training Faculty of the University of Belgrade, a teacher course, and gained a professor of classroom teaching (topic: “Difficulties and problems in the integration of children with disabilities in the regular education system”). Now, he works as a professor at the College of Social Work. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Educational Rehabilitation Faculty, Department of Motor Disorders and Chronic Diseases in Gothenburg, Switzerland, which includes adapting textbooks to pupils with disabilities in a regular school. He was invited there by Professor Selma Tusevljak, a special pedagogue from the University of Geteburg.

Mirjana Tankosic is Assistant Professor at Faculty of Business Studies, Bel- grade, Serbia. She holds a PhD in Communication studies from Faculty of culture and media, Megatrend University, Belgrade. Her scientific fields of interest are interdisciplinary, including communication, public relationship, public opinion, marketing, and consumer behaviour. She participated in numerous scientific conferences in the country and abroad.

312